Might need extra guylines.

[Pattree]

A few miles up the road!

My science teacher daughter points out that one raindrop will punch straight through the roof at that speed!

Edited to add:
This is Midlands UK!

 

[hughtrimble]

Edinburgh has the fastest at 17,246 mph!

BBC Weather app forecasts hurricane force winds

"Don't be alarmed folks," says weather presenter Matt Taylor after a data glitch on the site.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[birchwood]

Think I would be worried about the temperature melting the tent.
Reports of 404 degrees.

 

[Pattree]

It’s the FBI geoengineering the weather.

 

[Woody girl]

I didn't realise you were living in florida..I will pray for your safety, if you can't evacuate, move to higher ground, and take cover, we will send relief parcels if you need them.!
Actualy ,joking aside, it's not a great moment to have a mistake like that is it?

 

[hughtrimble]

I didn't realise you were living in florida..I will pray for your safety, if you can't evacuate, move to higher ground, and take cover, we will send relief parcels if you need them.!
Actualy ,joking aside, it's not a great moment to have a mistake like that is it?

The system seemed to have automatically triggered some specific 'hurricane force winds' warnings on BBC Weather for Devon earlier today; presumably once the forecast wind speed gets above a defined threshold it puts out the warning banner automatically.

 

[Woody girl]

I live on the Somerset Devon border. My weather app says windspeed of 10km per hour.
I'm not gonna worry just yet.

 

[Pattree]

I’ll be interested in what caused the glitch. The storm on Jupiter “only” moves at around 650kph.
Why on Earth does our weather prediction system allow for estimations of such impossible conditions?

Edited to add:

……… without alerting the system operators.

The prediction must have appeared as a majority option across a lot of possibles.

 

[Tengu]

Here today is not a kiting day.

 

[Chris]

I’ll be interested in what caused the glitch. The storm on Jupiter “only” moves at around 650kph.
Why on Earth does our weather prediction system allow for estimations of such impossible conditions?

Edited to add:

……… without alerting the system operators.

The prediction must have appeared as a majority option across a lot of possibles.

The website will take a number from somewhere, process it and sanitise it and then fart that number out onto the page you see. There are often calculations run to do things like round up/down to nearest decimal place, or convert from one unit of measurement to another.

Likely what happened is a developer put a decimal point in the wrong place, or added an extra number by mistake when working on the bit of code that turns the raw data into a presentable number for people to read on the website.